Updating PyQt

2009-07-22 Thread Heinz A Preisig
Thanks Scott, thus there is no update procedure in place for pyqt, which is changing quite rapidly? I got the impression that a lot of people are using it actively. But them I do not know on what I am intrinsically asking for in terms of effort. Thanks, Heinz Preisig -- Heinz A Preisig Profess

Re: Migrating OCaml to 3.11.1 in Karmic?

2009-07-22 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
David MENTRE wrote: > Hello Scott, > > 2009/7/21 Scott Kitterman : >> How long do you expect? > > A similar transition took 4 weeks in Debian. > Actually, It took 3 weeks :) (considering the rpm transition which blocked ocaml transition). Hopefully, rpm is now built/installed almost everywher

Re: Updating PyQt

2009-07-22 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:42:40 +0200 Heinz A Preisig wrote: >Thanks Scott, thus there is no update procedure in place for pyqt, which >is changing quite rapidly? I got the impression that a lot of people are >using it actively. But them I do not know on what I am intrinsically >asking for in terms

Reporting usability problems: please be more tolerant when you triage bugs!

2009-07-22 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Dear all, sorry for crossposting, please notice it before replying to all. I tend to report all usability bugs I find, in the hope that ubuntu will become better. The hudred-papercut effort shows that I am not wrong in reporting those as bugs. However, it is very easy that a developer does not

Re: Reporting usability problems: please be more tolerant when you triage bugs!

2009-07-22 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il 22/07/2009 18:47, Vincenzo Ciancia ha scritto: > Dear all, > > sorry for crossposting, please notice it before replying to all. > I am possibly a bit of an idiot for what I did, but luckily the other list which has nothing to do with my target has a moderator. I generate too much noise. My ap

Re: Reporting usability problems: please be more tolerant when you triage bugs!

2009-07-22 Thread Henrique Almeida
Agreed. Ubuntu developers either don't understand my usability reports or tag them as low priority bugs, which gets triaged for many releases. Once I have submitted a bug report on an usability issue that caused "information loss", which is serious. In certain PDF files, I can't search for accente

Re: Reporting usability problems: please be more tolerant when you triage bugs!

2009-07-22 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il 22/07/2009 19:04, Henrique Almeida ha scritto: > Agreed. Ubuntu developers either don't understand my usability > reports or tag them as low priority bugs, which gets triaged for many > releases. This is because these are not crashers and typically just affect a small portion of the applicat

Re: Reporting usability problems: please be more tolerant when you triage bugs!

2009-07-22 Thread Sebastien Bacher
On mer., 2009-07-22 at 18:47 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > However, it is very easy that a developer does not recognise an > usability-related bug report, and confuses it with a more or less > strange support request, and I often have to discuss to have it > accepted > as a bug. The issue i

Re: Reporting usability problems: please be more tolerant when you triage bugs!

2009-07-22 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
>> However, it is very easy that a developer does not recognise an >> usability-related bug report, and confuses it with a more or less >> strange support request, and I often have to discuss to have it >> accepted as a bug. > > The issue is that Ubuntu doesn't write most of the softwares it > dis

Re: Reporting usability problems: please be more tolerant when you triage bugs!

2009-07-22 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il 22/07/2009 22:53, Mikus Grinbergs ha scritto: > Let me suggest that Ubuntu appoint an usability triager/ombudsman, > to determine (from the Ubuntu users' perspective, not from an Ubuntu > developers' perspective) how much attention ought to be paid to each > and every usability-related bug repor

Re: Reporting usability problems: please be more tolerant when you triage bugs!

2009-07-22 Thread Vishal Rao
+1, me too, etc... See the comments in bug 294523 at https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/294523 A few users have tried to report/push/discuss for this for a few releases already but it seems the bug is low priority even though its a usability pain and that too right at the start of t

Re: Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 32, Issue 31

2009-07-22 Thread Anthony G Weitekamp
One Hundred Paper Cut Method, After getting tired of reading this list where almost every user request has been handled with the standard RTFM reply and dismissed as a newbie error, I decided to look around at various other Linux distributions. I even went upstream to find out if anyone had a

Re: Reporting usability problems: please be more tolerant when you triage bugs!

2009-07-22 Thread Davyd McColl
> Let me suggest that Ubuntu appoint an usability triager/ombudsman, > to determine (from the Ubuntu users' perspective, not from an Ubuntu > developers' perspective) how much attention ought to be paid to each > and every usability-related bug report. My 2c: I have to whole-heartedly agree. Proba